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Earlier this month, I was asked to be a beta reader for a friend. The novel was a YA romance with what she described as a rather controversial backbone. It’s rare I take on beta reads. For one, I cannot retain information I read from a screen to save my life - my poor Kindle has been sitting beside my bed untouched by all book...

There’s an armchair that I’ve always loved. As a kid, it used to sit in the sitting room, and I would hide behind it, playing with my dolls or horses. I sat in the same chair a few years later, when my nieces and nephews were born, telling them all various (a lot of the time, edited) fairy tales. Later still, when my grandmother was...

I was a little wary going into Mirage. It was advertised as a YA romance set in space, and as the last few books I’ve read set in space started strong and progressively worsened as they went along, I was worried Mirage may not be worth it. Especially having just finished Sarah J. Maas’ Empire of Storms, with its incredible, edge-of-your-seat ending. Was I wrong?...

Three days… Sixty-Two Hours… Three thousand, seven hundred and twenty minutes… …and then the party officially begins! That’s right! NaNoWriMo is coming, and I am beyond exciting for this year. After finishing the second draft of the first instalment in my YA trilogy at the start of October, I’ve kept myself as far away from writing fiction as possible. It’s been a difficult few weeks...